Born on this day – Lon Chaney Jr.:

Lon Chaney Jr.

Actor

February 10, 1906 – July 12, 1973

Credits:

House of the Black Death (1971); Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971); The Female Bunch (1971); A Stranger in Town (1970); Fireball Jungle (1968); Buckskin (1968); Spider Baby or, the Maddest Story Ever Told (1967); Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967); Welcome to Hard Times (1967); Gallery of Horror (1967); Pistols 'n' Petticoats (1966); The Monkees (1966); Johnny Reno (1966); Apache Uprising (1965); Town Tamer (1965); Black Spurs (1965); Young Fury (1964); Thunder Rock (1964); Stage to Thunder Rock (1964); Witchcraft (1964); Law of the Lawless (1964); Route 66 (1961–1963); The Haunted Palace (1963); Empire (1963); Have Gun - Will Travel (1959–1963); Rawhide (1959–1963); The Devil's Messenger (1962); Lawman (1962); The Rifleman (1962); The Phantom (1961); Surfside 6 (1961); Wagon Train (1960–1961); The Deputy (1961); Zane Grey Theatre (1961); Klondike (1961); Stagecoach West (1961); Rebellion in Cuba (1961); Bat Masterson (1960); Lock Up (1960); La casa del terror (1960); Johnny Ringo (1960); 13 Demon Street (1959); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1959); Adventures in Paradise (1959); Border Patrol (1959); The Alligator People (1959); The Texan (1959); General Electric Theater (1959); The Red Skelton Hour (1953–1959); The Rough Riders (1959); Target (1958); Money, Women and Guns (1958); Tombstone Territory (1958); The Defiant Ones (1958); Hawkeye and the Last of the Mohicans (1957); Climax! (1954–1957); The Cyclops (1957); Studio 57 (1956); Daniel Boone, Trail Blazer (1956); Pardners (1956); The Black Sleep (1956); Telephone Time (1956); Indestructible Man (1956); Manfish (1956); The Indian Fighter (1955); I Died a Thousand Times (1955); Not as a Stranger (1955); Cavalcade of America (1954–1955); The Silver Star (1955); Big House, U.S.A. (1955); The Black Pirates (1954); The Whistler (1954); Passion (1954); Casanova's Big Night (1954); The Boy from Oklahoma (1954); Jivaro (1954); A Lion Is in the Streets (1953); Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953); Bandit Island (1953); Battles of Chief Pontiac (1952); The Black Castle (1952); Springfield Rifle (1952); Schlitz Playhouse (1952); High Noon (1952); Thief of Damascus (1952); Tales of Tomorrow (1952); Flame of Araby (1951); The Bushwhackers (1951); Cosmopolitan Theatre (1951); Bride of the Gorilla (1951); Behave Yourself! (1951); Only the Valiant (1951); Inside Straight (1951); Once a Thief (1950); Captain China (1950); There's a Girl in My Heart (1949); The Life of Riley (1948); 16 Fathoms Deep (1948); Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948); The Counterfeiters (1948); Albuquerque (1948); My Favorite Brunette (1947); Pillow of Death (1945); House of Dracula (1945); The Daltons Ride Again (1945); Strange Confession (1945); The Frozen Ghost (1945); Here Come the Co-eds (1945); The Mummy's Curse (1944); House of Frankenstein (1944); Dead Man's Eyes (1944); The Mummy's Ghost (1944); Ghost Catchers (1944); Follow the Boys (1944); Cobra Woman (1944); Weird Woman (1944); Calling Dr. Death (1943); Son of Dracula (1943); Crazy House (1943); Frontier Badmen (1943); What We Are Fighting For (1943); Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943); Keeping Fit (1942); The Mummy's Tomb (1942); Eyes of the Underworld (1942); Overland Mail (1942); The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942); North to the Klondike (1942); The Wolf Man (1941); Badlands of Dakota (1941); Riders of Death Valley (1941); San Antonio Rose (1941); Billy the Kid (1941); Too Many Blondes (1941); Man Made Monster (1941); North West Mounted Police (1940); One Million B.C. (1940); Of Mice and Men (1939); City in Darkness (1939); Frontier Marshal (1939); Union Pacific (1939); Jesse James (1939); Road Demon (1938); Submarine Patrol (1938); Straight Place and Show (1938); Passport Husband (1938); Speed to Burn (1938); Josette (1938); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); Mr. Moto's Gamble (1938); Walking Down Broadway (1938); Sally, Irene and Mary (1938); Happy Landing (1938); City Girl (1938); Love and Hisses (1937); Checkers (1937); Second Honeymoon (1937); Life Begins in College (1937); Charlie Chan on Broadway (1937); Wife, Doctor and Nurse (1937); Thin Ice (1937); One Mile from Heaven (1937); The Lady Escapes (1937); Wild and Woolly (1937); Born Reckless (1937); Slave Ship (1937); Angel's Holiday (1937); This Is My Affair (1937); That I May Live (1937); Secret Agent X-9 (1937); Midnight Taxi (1937); Love Is News (1937); Cheyenne Rides Again (1937); The Old Corral (1936); Rose Bowl (1936); Killer at Large (1936); Ace Drummond (1936); Undersea Kingdom (1936); The Singing Cowboy (1936); The Shadow of Silk Lennox (1935); A Scream in the Night (1935); Accent on Youth (1935); Hold 'Em Yale (1935); Captain Hurricane (1935); The Marriage Bargain (1935); Girl O' My Dreams (1934); The Life of Vergie Winters (1934); Sixteen Fathoms Deep (1934); Son of the Border (1933); The Three Musketeers (1933); Scarlet River (1933); Lucky Devils (1933); The Last Frontier (1932); Bird of Paradise (1932); The Galloping Ghost (1931); The Trap (1922).

Born on this day – John Carradine:

John Carradine

Actor

February 5, 1906 – November 27, 1988

Credits:

Jack-O (1995); Buried Alive (1989); Evil Spawn (1987); The Adventures of Taura: Prison Ship Star Slammer (1986); Peggy Sue Got Married (1986); The Tomb (1986); Monster in the Closet (1986); Revenge (1986); The Twilight Zone (1986); Frankenstein's Brain (1985); Grave's End (1985); Evils of the Night (1985); Fame (1985); Charlie's Christmas Secret (1984); The Fall Guy (1984); Antony and Cleopatra (1984); Welcome to the Fun Zone (1984); The Ice Pirates (1984); Imps* (1983); The Vals (1983); A Rose for Emily (1983); Doctor Dracula (1983); House of the Long Shadows (1983); The Secret of NIMH (1982); Klynham Summer (1982); Demon Rage (1982); Aladdin and the Magic Lamp (1982); Fantasy Island (1982); Frankenstein Island (1981); Goliath Awaits (1981); The Reluctant Dragon (1981); The Nesting (1981); CBS Library (1981); The Monster Club (1981); The Howling (1981); The Boogey Man (1980); Monstroid (1980); The Seekers (1979); The Littlest Hobo (1979); Americathon (1979); B.J. and the Bear (1979); Nocturna (1979); Teheran Incident (1979); Wonder Woman (1978); Greatest Heroes of the Bible (1978); The Bees (1978); Flying High (1978); Vega$ (1978); Vampire Hookers (1978); Sunset Cove (1978); Starsky and Hutch (1978); The Lady and the Lynchings (1977); Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. (1977); Golden Rendezvous (1977); Shock Waves (1977); The Mouse and His Child (1977); McCloud (1977); The White Buffalo (1977); Satan's Cheerleaders (1977); Tail Gunner Joe (1977); The Sentinel (1977); Crash! (1976); The Last Tycoon (1976); The Killer Inside Me (1976); Captains and the Kings (1976); Death at Love House (1976); The Shootist (1976); Won Ton Ton: The Dog Who Saved Hollywood (1976); McCoy (1976); Westwind (1975); The Rookies (1975); Far Out Space Nuts (1975); Mobile One (1975); Mary, Mary, Bloody Mary (1975); Kung Fu (1972–1975); Stowaway to the Moon (1975); The Lady's Not for Burning (1974); Emergency! (1974); The House of Seven Corpses (1974); The Cowboys (1974); The Cat Creature (1973); Shadow House (1973); Superchick (1973); 1,000,000 A.D. Promo Reel (1973); Terror in the Wax Museum (1973); Bad Charleston Charlie (1973); Love, American Style (1973); The Night Strangler (1973); Silent Night, Bloody Night (1972); The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1972); Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972); Richard (1972); Portnoy's Complaint (1972); Boxcar Bertha (1972); Moonchild (1972); Threshold (1971); Honey Britches (1971); Ironside (1971); Night Gallery (1971); House of the Black Death (1971); Decisions! Decisions! (1971); The Seven Minutes (1971); The Gatling Gun (1971); Will to Die (1971); Crowhaven Farm (1970); Horror of the Blood Monsters (1970); Bigfoot (1970); The McMasters (1970); Shinbone Alley (1970); Myra Breckinridge (1970); Hell's Bloody Devils (1970); Blood of the Iron Maiden (1970); Cain's Cutthroats (1970); The Mummy and the Curse of the Jackals (1969); Daughter of the Mind (1969); Bonanza (1961–1969); Five Bloody Graves (1969); Madame Death (1969); Land of the Giants (1969); Enigma de muerte (1969); The Good Guys and the Bad Guys (1969); Las vampiras (1969); The Trouble with Girls (1969); Blood of Dracula's Castle (1969); The Big Valley (1969); Diabolical Pact (1969); Antologia del miedo (1968); Autopsia de un fantasma (1968); The Astro-Zombies (1968); They Ran for Their Lives (1968); Daniel Boone (1968); Blood of Ghastly Horror (1967); Hondo (1967); The Hostage (1967); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1967); Hillbillys in a Haunted House (1967); Lost in Space (1967); Gallery of Horror (1967); The Green Hornet (1967); The Emperor's New Clothes (1966); Red Zone Cuba (1966); The Girl from U.N.C.L.E. (1966); Munster, Go Home! (1966); Branded (1965–1966); Billy the Kid Versus Dracula (1966); Laredo (1966); The Legend of Jesse James (1965); The Munsters (1965–1966); The Beverly Hillbillies (1966); Something for Mrs. Gibbs (1965); The Alfred Hitchcock Hour (1965); Curse of the Stone Hand (1965); The Wizard of Mars (1965); Genesis (1964); Cheyenne Autumn (1964); The Patsy (1964); The Lucy Show (1964); Lawman (1962); The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962); The Red Skelton Hour (1956–1962); Thriller (1961); Death Valley Days (1961); Maverick (1961); Wagon Train (1958–1960); Harrigan and Son (1960); The Twilight Zone (1960); The Rebel (1959–1960); Sex Kittens Go to College (1960); Tarzan the Magnificent (1960); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960); Overland Trail (1960); Lock Up (1960); Wanted: Dead or Alive (1960); Johnny Ringo (1959); The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp (1959); The Incredible Petrified World (1959); Gunsmoke (1955–1959); Invasion of the Animal People (1959); The Oregon Trail (1959); The Rifleman (1959); Man Without a Gun (1959); Invisible Invaders (1959); Tombstone Territory (1959); The Millionaire (1959); Bat Masterson (1959); The Cosmic Man (1959); The Rough Riders (1959); Rescue 8 (1959); Cimarron City (1959); Sugarfoot (1958); 77 Sunset Strip (1958); The Last Hurrah (1958); Have Gun - Will Travel (1958); The Proud Rebel (1958); The Restless Gun (1958); The Lineup (1958); Suspicion (1958); Showdown at Boot Hill (1958); Hell Ship Mutiny (1957); Telephone Time (1957); Matinee Theatre (1956–1957); Studio One (1957); The DuPont Show of the Month (1957); The Story of Mankind (1957); Navy Log (1957); The O. Henry Playhouse (1957); The Unearthly (1957); Schlitz Playhouse (1957); Cheyenne (1957); The True Story of Jesse James (1957); Playhouse 90 (1957); Dark Venture (1956); Around the World in 80 Days (1956); The Ten Commandments (1956); Sneak Preview (1956); The Black Sleep (1956); Studio 57 (1956); Damon Runyon Theater (1956); My Friend Flicka (1956); Front Row Center (1956); Hidden Guns (1956); Climax! (1955–1956); The Court Jester (1955); Desert Sands (1955); The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1955); Half Human (1958); The Kentuckian (1955); Our Miss Brooks (1955); Stranger on Horseback (1955); Female Jungle (1955); Adventures of Wild Bill Hickok (1954); Tales of a Wayward Inn (1954); Thunder Pass (1954); The Egyptian (1954); Johnny Guitar (1954); The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet (1954); Casanova's Big Night (1954); My Friend Irma (1953); Suspense (1953); The Kate Smith Hour (1953); Gang Busters (1952); The Adventures of Fu Manchu: The Zayat Kiss (1952); Thunderbolt the Wondercolt (1952); Lights Out (1950–1952); The Web (1950–1951); Faith Baldwin Romance Theatre (1951); The Adventures of Ellery Queen (1951); Sure As Fate (1951); The Chevrolet Tele-Theatre (1948–1949); 'C'-Man (1949); Kraft Theatre (1949); The Ed Sullivan Show (1949); A Christmas Carol (1947); The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947); Down Missouri Way (1946); The Face of Marble (1946); House of Dracula (1945); Captain Kidd (1945); Fallen Angel (1945); It's in the Bag! (1945); House of Frankenstein (1944); Alaska (1944); Bluebeard (1944); Barbary Coast Gent (1944); Return of the Ape Man (1944); The Mummy's Ghost (1944); Waterfront (1944); The Invisible Man's Revenge (1944); The Black Parachute (1944); The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944); Voodoo Man (1944); Gangway for Tomorrow (1943); Revenge of the Zombies (1943); Isle of Forgotten Sins (1943); Silver Spurs (1943); Hitler's Madman (1943); Captive Wild Woman (1943); I Escaped from the Gestapo (1943); Reunion in France (1942); Northwest Rangers (1942); Whispering Ghosts (1942); Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942); Swamp Water (1941); Man Hunt (1941); Blood and Sand (1941); Western Union (1941); Chad Hanna (1940); Brigham Young (1940); The Return of Frank James (1940); The Grapes of Wrath (1940); Drums Along the Mohawk (1939); Frontier Marshal (1939); Five Came Back (1939); Captain Fury (1939); The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939); The Three Musketeers (1939); Stagecoach (1939); Jesse James (1939); Mr. Moto's Last Warning (1938); Submarine Patrol (1938); Gateway (1938); I'll Give a Million (1938); Kidnapped (1938); Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938); Kentucky Moonshine (1938); Four Men and a Prayer (1938); Of Human Hearts (1938); International Settlement (1938); Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937); The Last Gangster (1937); The Hurricane (1937); Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937); Danger - Love at Work (1937); Love Under Fire (1937); This Is My Affair (1937); Captains Courageous (1937); Nancy Steele Is Missing! (1937); Laughing at Trouble (1936); Winterset (1936); Daniel Boone (1936); Dimples (1936); Ramona (1936); Mary of Scotland (1936); White Fang (1936); Half Angel (1936); Under Two Flags (1936); A Message to Garcia (1936); The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936); Anything Goes (1936); The Man Who Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo (1935); Bad Boy (1935); The Crusades (1935); She Gets Her Man (1935); Alias Mary Dow (1935); Bride of Frankenstein (1935); Cardinal Richelieu (1935); Les Misérables (1935); Transient Lady (1935); Clive of India (1935); Cleopatra (1934); The Black Cat (1934); The Meanest Gal in Town (1934); The Invisible Man (1933); To the Last Man (1933); This Day and Age (1933); Morning Glory (1933); The Story of Temple Drake (1933); The Sign of the Cross (1932); Forgotten Commandments (1932); Heaven on Earth (1931); Tol'able David (1930); Bright Lights (1930).

Born on this day – Helen Chandler:

Helen Chandler

Actress

February 1, 1906 – April 30, 1965

Credits:

Mr. Boggs Steps Out (1938); It's a Bet (1935); Radio Parade of 1935 (1934); Unfinished Symphony (1934); Midnight Alibi (1934); Long Lost Father (1934); The Worst Woman in Paris? (1933); Goodbye Again (1933); Dance Hall Hostess (1933); Alimony Madness (1933); Christopher Strong (1933); Behind Jury Doors (1932); Vanity Street (1932); A House Divided (1931); Fanny Foley Herself (1931); The Last Flight (1931); Salvation Nell (1931); Daybreak (1931); Dracula (1931); Mother's Cry (1930); Outward Bound (1930); Rough Romance (1930); The Sky Hawk (1929); Salute (1929); Mother's Boy (1929); The Joy Girl (1927); The Music Master (1927).

Born on this day – Roosevelt Sykes:

Roosevelt Sykes

Blues singer

Pianist

Songwriter

January 31, 1906 – July 17, 1983

Credits:

Albums:

Barrelhouse Blues (2011); Blues (1961); Blues by Roosevelt "The Honeydripper" Sykes (1995); Blues Masters Vol. 23 - Roosevelt Sykes (2009); Blues Piano and Guitar (2019); Boot That Thing (1929-1941) (2008); Chicago Blues Festival (1970); Chicago Blues Festival '70 (Blues Reference) (2002); Chicago Boogie (2004); Dirty Double Mother (1973); Dirty Mother for You (2013); Double Barreled Boogie (2004); Eight Ball Blues (2007); Face to Face with the Blues (1961); Feel Like Blowing My Horn (1973); Fine And Brown (2008); Gold Mine (1992); Grind It! (1996); Happy Hours (2015); Hard Drivin' Blues (1964); Honeydripper (2015); Is it True 'Bout the Man Roosevelt? (2020); Memphis Blues (1974); Memphis Slim Presents Roosevelt "The Honeydripper" Sykes (2014); Music Is My Business (1996); Night Time Is the Right Time (2019); Raining in My Heart (2000); Roosevelt Sykes "Live" At Webster College 1974 (2014); Roosevelt Sykes Selected Favorites (2006); Roosevelt Sykes Sings the Blues (2006); Roosevelt Sykes the Honey Dripper, Vol. 1: 1934-1942 (Blues Collection Historic Recordings) (1999); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 10 (1951-1957) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 3 (1931-1933) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 4 (1934-1936) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 5 (1937-1939) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 7 (1941-1944) (2005); Roosevelt Sykes Vol. 9 (1947-1951) (2005); Sings the Blues (1998); Slave for Your Love (2021); The Honey Dripper's Ball (1970); The Honeydripper (1962); The Honeydripper's Duke's Mixture (1971); The Original Honeydripper (2013); The Return of Roosevelt Sykes (1960); The Ultimate Jazz Archive (Vol 15) (2010); Wild Side (2020).

Movies and television:

All You Need Is Love (1977); Bandstand (1966); Bluesland: A Portrait in American Music (1993); David Makes Man (2019); Denise Calls Up (1995); En remontant le Mississippi (1973); Good Hair (2009); Last Flag Flying (2017); Long John Baldry: In the Shadow of the Blues (2000); Mafia III (2016); Manchester by the Sea (2016); Mississippi Grind (2015); Mr. Mercedes (2017); Nothing But the Blues (1966); Outcast (2016); Pretend It's a City (2021); Shindig! (1965); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 1 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1966 - Volume 2 (2003); The American Folk Blues Festival 1962-1969 - Volume 3 (2004); The Blues Under the Skin (1973); The Deuce (2018).

Born on this day – Carol Reed:

Carol Reed

Director

Producer

December 30, 1906 – April 25, 1976

Born on this day – James Hadley Chase:

James Hadley Chase

Writer

December 24, 1906 – February 6, 1985

Credits:

A Can of Worms (1979); A Coffin from Hong Kong (1962); A Lotus for Miss Quon (1961); An Ace Up My Sleeve (1971); An Ear to the Ground (1968); Believe This, You'll Believe Anything (1975); Believed Violent (1968); Blonde's Requiem (1946); But a Short Time to Live (1951); Cade (1966); Come Easy, Go Easy (1960); Come Easy, Go Easy / Cade / My Laugh Comes Last (1993); Consider Yourself Dead (1978); Do Me a Favour, Drop Dead (1976); Double Shuffle / Shock Treatment / Tell it to the Birds (1974); Eve (1945); Figure It Out for Yourself (1950); Get a Load of This (1941); Goldfish Have No Hiding Place (1974); Hand Me a Fig Leaf (1981); Have a Change of Scene (1973); Have a Nice Night (1982); Have This One On Me (1967); He Won't Need It Now (1939); Hit and Run (1958); Hit Them Where It Hurts (1985); I Hold the Four Aces (1977); I Would Rather Stay Poor (1962); I'll Bury My Dead (1953); I'll Get You for This (1946); In a Vain Shadow (1951); Just a Matter of Time (1972); Just Another Sucker (1961); Just the Way It Is (1944); Knock, Knock! Who's There? (1973); Lady, Here's Your Wreath (1940); Last Page (1946); Lay Her Among the Lilies (1950); Like a Hole in the Head (1970); Make the Corpse Walk (1946); Mallory (1950); Meet Mark Girland (1977); Miss Callaghan Comes to Grief (1941); Miss Shumway Waves a Wand (1944); Mission to Siena (1955); Mission to Venice (1954); More Deadly Than the Male (1946); My Laugh Comes Last (1977); Never Trust a Woman (1957); No Business of Mine (1947); No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1939); Not My Thing (1983); Not Safe to Be Free (1958); One Bright Summer Morning (1963); Ruthless (1955); Safer Dead (1954); Shock Treatment (1959); Slipstream (1946); So Soon To Die (1975); So What Happens to Me? (1974); Strictly for Cash (1951); Tell It to the Birds (1963); The Dead Stay Dumb (1939); The Doll's Bad News (1940); The Double Shuffle (1952); The Fast Buck (1952); The Flesh of the Orchid (1948); The Guilty Are Afraid (1957); The Joker in the Pack (1975); The Mammoth Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories (1998); The Mirror in Room 22 (1946); The Paw in the Bottle (1949); The Pickup (1955); The Soft Centre (1964); The Sucker Punch (1954); The Things Men Do (1953); The Vulture Is a Patient Bird (1969); The Wary Transgressor (1952); The Way the Cookie Crumbles (1965); The Whiff of Money (1969); The World in My Pocket (1959); There's a Hippie On the Highway (1970); There's Always a Price Tag (1956); This Is for Real (1965); This Way for a Shroud (1953); Three of Spades (1974); Tiger By the Tail (1954); Trusted Like the Fox (1948); Try This One for Size (1980); Want to Stay Alive? (1971); Well Now, My Pretty (1967); We'll Share a Double Funeral (1982); What's Better Than Money? (1960); Why Pick On Me? (1951); You Can Say That Again (1980); You Find Him, I'll Fix Him (1956); You Have Yourself a Deal (1966); You Must Be Kidding (1979); You Never Know with Women (1949); You're Dead Without Money (1972); You're Lonely When You're Dead (1949); You've Got It Coming (1955).

Movies and television:

A Kiss for a Killer (1957); Assicurazione sulla morte (1987); Bukhta smerti (1991); Ça n'arrive qu'aux vivants (1959); Cambiamento d'aria (1988); Cinépanorama (1957); Coffin from Hong Kong (1964); Crime and Passion (1975); Crime on a Summer Morning (1965); Dans la gueule du loup (1961); Dead End (1965); Délit de fuite (1959); Die Katze im Sack (1965); Emmenez-moi au théâtre: Pas d'orchidées pour Miss Blandisch (1978); Eva (1962 / 2018); Grandeur et décadence d'un petit commerce de cinéma (1986–1989); Have a Nice Night (1990); Highway Pick-Up (1963); Kazino (1992); La petite vertu (1968); L'avvoltoio sa attendere (1991); Le démoniaque (1968); Le denier du colt (1990); Les canailles (1960); Lotosblüten für Miss Quon (1967); Lucky Nick Cain (1951); Mais qui arrêtera la pluie? (1990); Man Bait (1952); Mark of the Tortoise (1964); Miraza (1983); Miss Shumway Goes West (1963); Mission to Venice (1964); No Orchids for Miss Blandish (1948); On svoyo poluchit (1992); Palmetto (1998); Pas folle la guêpe (1972); Patto con la morte (1982); Playhouse 90 (1959); Pracka v láhvi (1978); Présumé dangereux (1990); Requiem per voce e pianoforte (1993); Retour de manivelle (1957); Rigged (1986); Rough Magic (1995); Snayper (1992); Spider's Web (1963); Studio One (1958); The Blonde from Peking (1967); The Catamount Killing (1974); The Flesh of the Orchid (1975); The Grissom Gang (1971); The Man in the Raincoat (1957); The Night of the Generals (1967); The Set Up (1995); The World in My Pocket (1961); Trop petit mon ami (1970); Try This One for Size (1989); Val Parnell's Spectacular (1960); Young Girls Beware (1957); Zlaté rybicky (1979).

Born on this day – Franz Waxman:

Franz Waxman

Composer

Actor

December 24, 1906 – February 24, 1967

Born on this day – Joseph “Joe” MacDonald:

Joseph “Joe” MacDonald

Cinematographer

Actor

December 15, 1906 – May 26, 1968

Credits:

40 Pounds of Trouble (1962); 6-18-67 (1967); A Guide for the Married Man (1967); A Hatful of Rain (1957); Adorable (1933); All Men Are Enemies (1934); Alvarez Kelly (1966); Arizona (1940); As Young as You Feel (1951); Behind Green Lights (1946); Bigger Than Life (1956); Blindfold (1966); Broken Lance (1954); Call Northside 777 (1948); Captain Eddie (1945); Charlie Chan in Rio (1941); Dante's Inferno (1935); Down to the Sea in Ships (1949); Five Fingers (1959–1960); Flight from Ashiya (1964); Fourteen Hours (1951); Hat Check Girl (1932); Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939); Hell and High Water (1954); Hilda Crane (1956); House of Bamboo (1955); How to Marry a Millionaire (1953); In the Meantime, Darling (1944); Invitation to a Gunfighter (1964); It Happens Every Spring (1949); Kings of the Sun (1963); Little Tokyo, U.S.A. (1942); Mackenna's Gold (1969); Mirage (1965); Moss Rose (1947); My Darling Clementine (1946); Niagara (1953); O. Henry's Full House (1952); On the Threshold of Space (1956); Panic in the Streets (1950); Pepe (1960); Pickup on South Street (1953); Pinky (1949); Professional Soldier (1935); Quiet Please: Murder (1942); Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1932); Rio Conchos (1964); Roger Touhy, Gangster (1944); Romance of the Rio Grande (1940); Rosa de Francia (1935); Sailor's Luck (1933); Second Hand Wife (1933); She Was a Lady (1934); Shock (1946); Sob Sister (1931); Stella (1950); Sunday Dinner for a Soldier (1944); Taras Bulba (1962); Te quiero con locura (1935); Teenage Rebel (1956); Ten North Frederick (1958); That Other Woman (1942); The Big Noise (1944); The Big Stampede (1932); The Carpetbaggers (1964); The Dark Corner (1946); The Devil's in Love (1933); The Fiend Who Walked the West (1958); The Gallant Hours (1960); The Last Time I Saw Archie (1961); The List of Adrian Messenger (1963); The Man Who Wouldn't Die (1942); The New Venezuela (1954); The Postman Didn't Ring (1942); The Racers (1955); The Reward (1965); The Sand Pebbles (1966); The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952); The Street with No Name (1948); The True Story of Jesse James (1957); The View from Pompey's Head (1955); The Young Lions (1958); Thin Ice (1937); Titanic (1953); Too Busy to Work (1932); Viva Zapata! (1952); Walk on the Wild Side (1962); Warlock (1959); Western Union (1941); What Price Glory (1952); Where Love Has Gone (1964); White Witch Doctor (1953); Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957); Wintertime (1943); Woman's World (1954); Yellow Sky (1948); You're in the Navy Now (1951).

Born on this day – John Dickson Carr:

John Dickson Carr

Writer

November 30, 1906 – February 27, 1977

Credits:

Books:

A Century of British Mystery and Suspense (2000); A Very Murderous Christmas (2018); Below Suspicion (1949); Bodies from the Library 3 (2020); Bodies from the Library 5 (2022); Captain Cut-Throat (1955); Castle Skull (1931); Christmas Crimes (1996); Crime on the Coast / No Flowers by Request (1987); Crimes of Cymru (2023); Daring Detectives (1969); Dark of the Moon (1967); Deadly Arts (1985); Deadly Hall (1971); Dear Dead Days (1972); Death-Watch (1935); Dying of Fright (1976); English Country House Murders (1988); Fifty Best Mysteries (2004); Fifty Famous Detectives of Fiction (1938); Fire, Burn! (1957); Ghosts and Scholars (1987); Ghosts from the Library (2022); Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries (2022); Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense (1981); Hag's Nook (1932); Handle with Care (1985); He Who Whispers (1946); In Spite of Thunder (1960); It Walks By Night (1930); Manhattan Mysteries (1987); Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural (1985); Metropolitan Mysteries (2024); More Exploits Of Sherlock Holmes (1954); Most Secret (1964); Murder by the Seaside (2022); Murder In Midsummer (2019); Murder On Christmas Eve (2017); Murder Takes a Holiday (2020); Murderous Schemes (1996); Nine Detective Stories (1964); Panic in Box C (1966); Papa La-Bas (1968); Patrick Butler for the Defense (1956); Poison in Jest (1932); Realms of Darkness (1985); Sleeping Sphinx / Beagle Scented Murder / Death of a Doll (1948); The Arabian Nights Murder (1936); The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense (1982); The Black Lizard Big Book of Locked Room Mysteries (2014); The Blind Barber (1934); The Bride of Newgate (1950); The Burning Court (1937); The Case of the Constant Suicides (1941); The Corpse in the Waxworks / aka The Waxworks Murder (1932); The Crooked Hinge (1938); The Dead Man's Knock (1958); The Demoniacs (1962); The Devil in Velvet (1951); The Eight of Swords (1934); The Emperor's Snuff-Box (1942); The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes (1954); The Four False Weapons (1937); The Ghosts' High Noon (1969); The Hollow Man / aka The Three Coffins (1935); The House at Satan's Elbow (1965); The Hungry Goblin (1972); The Island of Coffins (2021); The John Dickson Carr Omnibus (2000); The Kindling Spark (2022); The Life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1949); The Locked Room Reader (1968); The Longman Anthology of Detective Fiction (2004); The Lost Gallows (1931); The Mad Hatter Mystery (1933); The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (1993); The Man Who Could Not Shudder (1940); The Men Who Explained Miracles (1964); The Murder of Sir Edmund Godfrey (1936); The Nine Wrong Answers (1952); The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996); The Problem of the Green Capsule (1939); The Problem of the Wire Cage (1939); The Scandal at High Chimneys (1959); The Seat of the Scornful / aka Death Turns the Tables (1942); The Sleeping Sphinx (1947); The Twelve Crimes of Christmas (1981); The Witch of Low Tide (1961); Third Bullet and Other Stories (1954); 13 to the Gallows (2008); Till Death Do Us Part (1944); Till Death Do Us Part / Intrigue for Empire / Give 'Em the Axe (1944); To Wake the Dead (1938); Vintage Crime (2020); Who Killed Father Christmas? (2023).

Movies and television:

BBC Sunday-Night Theatre (1956); City After Midnight (1957); Climax! (1958); Colonel March Investigates (1953); Colonel March of Scotland Yard (1954–1956); Danger (1951); Dangerous Crossing (1953); Detective (1964–1969); Devcátko s petrklíci (1967); Dow Hour of Great Mysteries (1960); Encounter (1956); Guilty Party (1957); La dama dei veleni (1979); L'occhio di Giuda (1982); Los suicidios constantes (1961); Mado no naka no satsujin (1983); Morte a passo di valzer (1979); Retro Static Radio / Podcast Series (2020); Storyboard (1961); Studio One (1952); Suspense (1949–1953); The Burning Court (1962); The Man in Black (1950); The Man with a Cloak (1951); The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1960); The Unforeseen (1959); Tre colpi di fucile (1982); Treacherous Crossing (1992).

Born on this day – Rhodie Cogan:

Rhodie Cogan

Actress

November 26, 1906 – April 24, 2000

Credits:

Crazy Like a Fox (1985); Days of Our Lives (1974); Gunsmoke (1974); Stand by Your Man (1981); Star Trek (1967); The Andromeda Strain (1971); The Vendors (1970); Watermelon Man (1970); Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973).

Born on this day – Mary Ellen Bute:

Ted Nemeth (left) and Mary Ellen Bute (right), photographed in their New York studio (circa 1936).

Mary Ellen Bute

Animator

Producer

Director

November 21, 1906 – October 17, 1983

Credits:

Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1966); RCA: New Sensations in Sound (1959); Imaginations (1958); Mood Contrasts (1953); Abstronic (1952); Pastoral (1950); Color Rhapsodie (1948); Polka Graph (1947); Tarantella (1940); Spook Sport (1940); Parábola (1937); Escape (1937); Dada (1936); Synchromy No. 2 (1936); Rhythm in Light (1935); Synchromy No. 1 (1934).

Born on this day – Betty Bronson:

Betty Bronson

Actress

November 17, 1906 – October 19, 1971

Credits:

A Kiss for Cinderella (1925); A Modern Sappho (1929); A Trip Through the Paramount Studio (1927); American Masters (2008); Anna Ascends (1922); Are Parents People? (1925); Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925); Blackbeard's Ghost (1968); Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre (1964); Brass Knuckles (1927); Companionate Marriage (1928); Compression (2023–2024); Dr. Kildare (1962); Evel Knievel (1971); Everybody's Acting (1926); Grindl (1964); His Children's Children (1923); Java Head (1923); Lover Come Back (1931); Lux Video Theatre (1956); Marcus Welby, M.D. (1971); My Three Sons (1960–1963); Not So Long Ago (1925); One Stolen Night (1929); Open Range (1927); Paradise (1926); Paradise for Two (1927); Peter Pan (1924); Pocketful of Miracles (1961); Ritzy (1927); Run for Your Life (1965); Screen Snapshots Series 16, No. 11 (1937); Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 1 (1937); Shannon (1962); Sonny Boy (1929); The Bellamy Trial (1929); The Cat's Pajamas (1926); The Eternal City (1923); The Go-Getter (1923); The Golden Princess (1925); The House That Shadows Built (1931); The Human Mill (1923); The Locked Door (1929); The Medicine Man (1930); The Merv Griffin Show (1971); The Midnight Patrol (1932); The Naked Kiss (1964); The Singing Fool (1928); The Strange Monster of Strawberry Cove (1971); Twenty-One (1923); Who's Got the Action? (1962); Yodelin' Kid from Pine Ridge (1937).

Born on this day – Henri Charrière:

Henri Charrière

Writer

Actor

November 16, 1906 – July 29, 1973

Credits:

Books:

Papillon (1969); Banco (1973).

Movies:

Papillon (2017); Papillon (1973); Popsy Pop (1971).

Born on this day – Louise Brooks:

Louise Brooks

Actress

Dancer

Writer

Painter

November 14, 1906 – August 8, 1985

Credits:

A Girl in Every Port (1928); A Social Celebrity (1926); Beggars of Life (1928); Diary of a Lost Girl (1929); Empty Saddles (1936); Evening Clothes (1927); God's Gift to Women (1931); It Pays to Advertise (1931); It's the Old Army Game (1926); Just Another Blonde (1926); King of Gamblers (1937); Love 'Em and Leave 'Em (1926); Now We're in the Air (1927); Overland Stage Raiders (1938); Pandora's Box (1929); Prix de beauté (Miss Europe) (1930); Rolled Stockings (1927); The American Venus (1926); The Canary Murder Case (1929); The City Gone Wild (1927); The Show-Off (1926); The Street of Forgotten Men (1925); When You're in Love (1937); Windy Riley Goes Hollywood (1931).

Born on this day – Hermione Baddeley:

Hermione Baddeley

Actress

November 13, 1906 – August 19, 1986

Born on this day – Sidney Kingsley:

Sidney Kingsley

Writer

October 22, 1906 – March 20, 1995

Credits:

Written work / plays:

Darkness at Noon (stage & TV adaptation) (1951); Dead End (1935); Detective Story (1949); Lunatics and Lovers (1954); Men in White (1933); Night Life (1962); Ten Million Ghosts (1936); The Patriots (1943); The World We Make (1939).

Movies and television:

Alta comedia (1974); American Masters (1989); Au théâtre ce soir (1972); Dead End (1937); Detective Story (1951 / 1963); Estudio 1 (1971–1978); Great Performances (1976); Homecoming (1948); ITV Play of the Week (1963); Men in White (1934); Moving Image Salutes Elia Kazan (1987); Polizeirevier 21 (1968); Primera fila (1964); Producers' Showcase (1955); Serpico (1973); Sonnenfinsternis (1963); Teatro estudio (1978); The DuPont Show of the Month (1960); The Ed Sullivan Show (1951); The Patriots (1963); We, the People (1949–1951); World in White (1957).

Born on this day – Johnny Temple:

Johnny Temple

Blues singer

Guitarist

October 18, 1906 – November 22, 1968

Credits:

Albums:

Johnnie Temple 1935-1940: From Mississippi to Chicago (The Blues) (1997); Johnnie Temple Vol. 2 1938-1940 (2005); Johnnie Temple Vol. 3 1940-1949 (2005); Johnny Temple's Believe My Sins Have Found Me Out (2006); Lead Pencil Blues (2015); Presenting Johnnie Temple (1935); Vol. 1 1935-1938 (2005).

Songs:

Beale Street Sheik; Between Midnight and Dawn; Big Boat Whistle; Big Leg Woman; Big Woman Blues; County Jail Blues; East Saint Louis Blues; Every Dog Must Have His Day; Fare You Well; Gimme Some of That Yum Yum Yum; Gonna Ride 74; Hoodoo Women; I Believe I'll Go Downtown Again; Jacksonville Blues; Lead Pencil Blues; Louise Louise Blues; Mama's Bad Luck Child; Mean Baby Blues; New Louise Louise Blues; New Vicksburg Blues; Olds "98" Blues; Peeping Through The Keyhole; Pimple Blues; Rhythm Mama; Snapping Cat; So Lonely And Blue; Something in the Moon That Gives Me a Thrill; Stavin' Chain; The Evil Devil Blues; What Is It That Smells Like Gravy?; Yum, Yum, Yum.

Born on this day – Victoria Spivey:

Victoria Spivey

Blues singer

Songwriter

October 15, 1906 – October 3, 1976

Born on this day – Janet Gaynor:

Janet Gaynor

Actress

October 6, 1906 – September 14, 1984

Born on this day – Jim Thompson:

Jim Thompson

Writer

September 27, 1906 – April 7, 1977

Credits:

A Hell Of A Woman (1954); A Swell-Looking Babe (1954); After Dark, My Sweet (1955); Bad Boy (1953); Child Of Rage (1972); City Sleuths and Tough Guys (1988); Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950 (1997); Cropper's Cabin (1952); Fireworks (1988); Hard-boiled (1995); Heed The Thunder (1946); Ironside (1967); King Blood (1973); More Hardcore: 3 Novels (1987); Murder Plus (1992); Nothing But A Man (1970); Nothing More Than Murder (1949); Now and On Earth (1942); Pop. 1280 (1964); Pulp Frictions (1996); Recoil (1953); Roughneck (1954); Savage Night (1953); South Of Heaven (1967); Texas By The Tail (1965); The Alcoholics (1953); The Best American Noir of the Century (2010); The Black Lizard Anthology of Crime Fiction (1987); The Criminal (1953); The Getaway (1959); The Golden Gizmo (1954); The Grifters (1963); The Jim Thompson Omnibus (1995); The Killer Inside Me (1952); The Kill-Off (1957); The Nothing Man (1954); The Rip-Off (1989); The Second Jim Thompson Omnibus (1997); The Transgressors (1961); The Undefeated (1969); Unusual Suspects (1996); Wild Town (1957).

Movies and television:

After Dark, My Sweet (1990); Cain's Hundred (1961); Clean Slate (1981); Convoy (1965); Dr. Kildare (1965); Fallen Angels (1993); Farewell, My Lovely (1975); Hit Me (1996); Mackenzie's Raiders (1958–1959); Paths of Glory (1957); Pop. 1280 (2024); Serie Noire (1979); The Getaway (1972 / 1994); The Grifters (1990); The Killer Inside Me (1976 / 2010); The Killing (1956); The Kill-Off (1989); This World, Then the Fireworks (1997); Trapped (2014).